WASHINGTON, July 30 -- Sen. Chris Coons issued the following press release:

U.S. Senators Chris Coons (D-Del.), Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), Angus King (I-Maine), and Martin Heinrich (D-M.N.) launched an investigation with eight other Democratic colleagues into the Trump administration's campaign to kill offshore wind energy projects with a letter to several energy companies who've recently canceled offshore wind projects demanding a response about lease buyout agreements.

"These buyouts have been announced amid a larger effort by the Trump Administration to stall wind and solar projects - the energy sources that are cheap, clean, and fastest to bring online - across the country," the senators ...